GNU MCU → Eclipse Embedded CDT!
In 2020, the GNU MCU/ARM Eclipse project was migrated to the Eclipse Foundation as Eclipse Embedded CDT (C/C++ Development Tools); starting with v5.1.1, all future releases will be available from the Eclipse Foundation.
Eclipse Embedded CDT is an open source project that includes a family of Eclipse plug-ins and tools for multi-platform embedded ARM and RISC-V development, based on GNU toolchains. This project is hosted on GitHub. The former project was hosted on GitHub and SourceForge.
RISC-V
Starting with Eclipse plug-ins v4.x, the project
was enhanced with support for RISC-V devices, thus
the new MCU name, more appropriate for a multi-platform project. For
more details, see the RISC-V Corner and
xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC
page.
The Eclipse Embedded CDT plug-ins
These plug-ins provide Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) extensions for GNU embedded toolchains like GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors, Linaro, xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC, etc.
In short, the Eclipse Embedded CDT plug-ins allow to create, build, debug and in general to manage ARM & RISC-V projects (executables and static/shared libraries, in both 32 and 64-bit versions) with the Eclipse framework (currently tested up to Eclipse 4.10 2018-12). The plug-ins run on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. For more details please visit the Features page.
Additional tools
Apart from the main Eclipse plug-ins, this project is accompanied by several other tools, distributed as separate packages.
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xPack Windows Build Tools
The xPack Windows Build Tools project includes the additional tools required to perform builds on Windows (make & rm).
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xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC
The xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC project is an alternate binary distribution that complements the official GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain maintained by Arm. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
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xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC
The xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC project is a new distribution of the bare metal version of RISC-V GCC, maintained by SiFive. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
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xPack OpenOCD
The xPack OpenOCD project is a new distribution of OpenOCD, customised for a better/more convenient integration with the OpenOCD Debugging plug-in. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
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xPack QEMU Arm
The xPack QEMU Arm project is a fork of QEMU (an open source machine emulator), intended to provide support for Cortex-M emulation in GNU MCU Eclipse. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
Let us know if you enjoyed it!
We definitely enjoyed working on the project! If you successfully installed Eclipse Embedded CDT and enjoyed using it, please let us know; here are some advices:
- the best way to praise us would be to donate - if you want to speed up development and future versions to include more and more great features, please consider donating; any contribution, small or generous, will be highly appreciated;
- star the project using the [GitHub Stars]https://github.com/eclipse-embed-cdt/eclipse-plugins/stargazers);
- follow the project on Twitter, to get notifications on new releases;
Thank you,
Liviu Ionescu
